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From: Sven Vermeulen <sven.vermeulen@××××××.be>
To: Kim Nielsen <kn@××××××××××.dk>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dangerous features in portage
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 03:06:30
Message-Id: Pine.GSO.4.31.0210291005010.3698-100000@eduserv.rug.ac.be
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Dangerous features in portage by Kim Nielsen
1 On 29 Oct 2002, Kim Nielsen wrote:
2
3 > I just found a rather dangerous feature in portage. After doing an
4 > emerge -u world it automaticly did an emerge clean (Which I heard was
5 > Gentoo policy now)
6 >
7 > This is plain stupid and dangerous since I'm now missing several shared
8 > objects (.so files). In order to correct it I have two choices
9
10 emerge clean doesn't do anything to your system, it only removes
11 ebuild-files from _your_ portage-tree that aren't available anymore on the
12 rsync-server(s) (and thus aren't really in Gentoo anymore).
13
14 Your missing .so-files have an other cause...
15
16 Sven Vermeulen
17
18 --
19 I thought I saw a pussycat...
20 I did! I did! I did saw a pussycat!
21 (Tweety)

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Dangerous features in portage Markus Wagner <mw@××××××××.de>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Dangerous features in portage Kim Nielsen <kn@××××××××××.dk>